Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Foundations of Ethical Excellence
1. Theoretical Foundations: Ethical Excellence and the Good Life
2. Practical Foundations: Recognizing Your Potential
3. Personal Foundations: Willpower
Part 2: Knowing Yourself: The Good, the Not-So-Good, and the Potentially Good
4. Examining Your Life
5. Refusing to Rationalize
6. Honesty: The Courage to Tell the Truth
Part 3: Fixing Your Flaws: Broadening Your View and Taming Your Inner Beast
7. Broadening Your View
8. Temperance: Taming Your Inner Beast
9. Perseverance: The Strength to Keep Going
Part 4: Good Thing It’s Not All about You: Understanding, Humility, and Learning by Example
10. Understanding Others
11. Identifying Role Models: Positive and Negative
12. Humility: Living with Your Limits
Part 5: Giving People What They Deserve: What You Owe Your Parents, Your Benefactors, and People in General
13. Justice: Treating People Rightly
14. Piety: Revering Your Roots
15. Gratitude: Acknowledging Goodness
Part 6: Extending Goodness: Next Door, across the World, and Everywhere in Between
16. Friendship: Keeping Good Company
17. Befriending the World
18. Benevolence and Generosity: The Most Lovable Virtues
Part 7: Pursuing Wisdom—and What to Do until You Find It
19. Tying It All Together: Practical Wisdom and Ethical Virtue
20. When All Else Fails...
Notes
Bibliography
Index